Centre of Adhyatma Yoga and Advaita Vedanta

Shanti Sadan is a centre of the Yoga of Self-Knowledge, Adhyatma Yoga.

This Yoga is based on the philosophy of non-duality, Advaita Vedanta, which is taught in the Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita as interpreted by Shri Shankara.

The Upanishads declare that the true Self of each individual is not in essence different from the universal Self, called God or the Absolute. Direct realization of this identity is the highest goal of life, and brings the complete cessation of all limitations and suffering.

Adhyatma Yoga is a traditional path to Self-Realization, through ethical living, devotion to truth, study, service and learning meditation.

The teaching is universal and is free from sectarianism and political or nationalistic bias. It encourages a love of wisdom and true spirituality, whatever its source.

picture of OM There are articles on Adhyatma Yoga, and Advaita Vedanta among the key Yoga teachings from Self-Knowledge Journal

The Summer 2010 edition of Self-Knowledge Journal is available, and selected excerpts can be read on-line.

"...Dharma is something deeper than this. It concerns our link, not with an outer God, but with our own deeper Self. It is getting in tune with our spiritual nature, God within, and uncovering a light and peace that is usually concealed ..."
From Dharma and Illumination in the Summer 2010 issue of Self-Knowledge.

"The one of illumined understanding is not thirsting for anything. He has found himself. He is not in quest of any end, because he is fulfilled. He has not only found the water, but knows that he is the water, and there is only water. He knows that the whole of experience appears as an extension of his own consciousness, that his innermost Self is one with the supreme power of the universe and the reality that underlies it..."
From The Illumined Understanding in the Spring 2010 issue of Self-Knowledge.

"In reality, our inner resources and hidden wealth have no boundary. They belong to what one teacher has called 'that region of Self-experience which knows no horizon'. There is infinity hidden in the finite, immortal divinity at the source of our mortal personality. The root of the mind and emotions, the source of our inner life, is spiritual..."
From Discovering Infinity in the Finite in the Winter 2010 issue of Self-Knowledge.

"The time has come when we should communicate with our eternal spiritual home, the time, the remembrance of which, in the form of a deep-seated dissatisfaction, haunts us in all our enterprises and under-takings. The apex of human life is conscious communication with that eternal home...."
From The Yoga of the Upanishads in the Autumn 2009 issue of Self-Knowledge.

"Yoga is the method of combining the functions of the mind with a view to create a super-function (vritti) producing peace and freedom. The mind in its natural state serves the instincts, but when the refined part of it is brought into the service of the cognitive and introspective processes, the results are psychologically wonderful....."
From Yoga Scientific in the Autumn 2009 issue of Self-Knowledge.

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